From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 3/15/2020 11:51 AM, MB wrote:   
   > On 15/03/2020 13:45, knuttle wrote:   
   >> If they have enough people in that were living at the time of the   
   >> ancestor that is you dead end.   
   >   
   > Don't understand that?   
      
   What I was trying to say that if the match is a 5th to 8th cousin, and   
   the oldest generation in the matches tree is their grandparent, the   
   chances of you being able to document the connection are small.   
      
   If you have traced every decendant from your 5th to 6th great   
   grandparent you would not be in a dead end situation.   
      
   The usually situation I find is thier grandparents is the oldest   
   generation in their tree.  Looking at my tree there is about a 4   
   generation gap between my tree and thier grandparent.   To make the   
   connection I would have to research 4 generation from thier tree to make   
   the documented connnection   
      
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